Rockets aren't always the best choice! Jinx's minigun is incredibly powerful when fully ramped up. Switch to it whenever an enemy champion gets too close.
Jinx's rockets deal full damage to all enemies in the explosion. Use them on minions in lane to hit nearby enemy champions without drawing minion aggro.
When a fight starts try to stay on the edge of fray by poking with rockets and Zap!. Do not run in and unload with the minigun until you feel it is safe.
Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.
Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
The stat comparisons shown here feature some critical Jinx against Nocturne counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the two. For instance, Jinx’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jinx may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nocturne..
Jinx often has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Nocturne. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jinx usually loses when trying to fight Nocturne, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, Jinx makes a bad counter to Nocturne.
While Jinx does have a lower win rate than Nocturne, when they face off with one another, Jinx also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Jinx into Nocturne.
Additionally, Jinx has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jinx vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Jinx is a garbage counter for Nocturne. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Jinx against Nocturne.
To learn all of the intricacies of Jinx in order to counter Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jinx typically gets much more CS compared to Nocturne. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Jinx versus Nocturne build consist of Infinity Edge, Runaan's Hurricane, and Stormrazor. When Jinx incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Nocturne than with most other common builds. In fact, Jinx had an average win rate of 46.3% when playing against Nocturne with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Nocturne as Jinx, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Jinx vs Nocturne battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.3% winrate overall.
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